On Tuesday, October 19, 2021, Namrata Murthy, Ed.D. candidate in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program successfully defended her dissertation “Examining Academic and Demographic Characteristics to Retain and Graduate Engineering Students at a Mid-Western Public University.” Dr. Murthy’s committee members are Dr. Ben Pogodzinski, major advisor; Dr. William Hill, Dr. Monte Piliawsky and Dr. Jeffrey Potoff.